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Twenty-third Sunday
of Ordinary Time A
September 10, 2017
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

A Love Story

Jesus lays out a detailed plan in the Gospel about how to help someone within the Christian community who has done you harm. This plan applies whatever the damage was: saying unfair things behind your back, embarrassing you in public, stealing, or unfaithfulness, etc. You name it.

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

Faults of the Parents in the Children

So many of our faults stem from the way God made us, namely, from the divine fire, divine appetites, divine energy, and godly grandiosity that God has put inside us. Our faults take their root there.

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Witnessing for the Lord

It is a duty for every Christian to watch out for each one of God’s people in the way God spelled out to Ezekiel. Could it really be the case that a Christian is supposed to be a kind of busybody, continually nagging other people about their sins?

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

The Debt of Love

The task that faces us in the world is awesome, and the obstacles are formidable. The only way we can succeed is by staying together, with Jesus in our midst.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

The Promise of the Lord

Can you think of new ways of bringing justice and divine love into the lives of those people you care for? Into your workplace? Into other places in your life?

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

Lord of the Revels

the heart
is troubled
is divided

and afraid
to believe
in dreams

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